First report into Air France crash

Jul 2 2009

French authorities will publish the first official report into the Air France plane crash in the Atlantic which claimed 228 lives.

Five Britons and three Irish nationals were among those aboard the Airbus A330 aircraft which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris when all contact was lost in the early hours of June 1.

There has been speculation that the flight crew could have received faulty speed information as they flew into bad weather.